Lost

Current mood: calm

I love Lost ! In tonight's episode, we saw a little bit more of Kate's (or should I say "Maggie's") backstory. Jack showed some backbone in standing up to Sawyer, who was his usual asshole self. Rose gave some words of wisdom to Charlie. And that little princess, Shannon, proved her worth.

Okay, so enough frou-frou. Onto talking about my day. The Life Skills teacher called in sick AGAIN today, once more throwing my entire schedule out of whack. This time, I was prepared and had the kids read an article from 1999 about teachers who sue a student over his defamatory website in which he accused them of being Satan-worshippers. I'd like to follow up on that story and find out who won the trial (if it even went to trial...teachers are notorious wimps). I chose the article because it was controversial and would provide some interesting discussions. Also, I hoped it would serve as a not-so-subtle hint that my students had better not pull that shit on me or I would use their family fortune to help pay for my condominium! Heheheh.

Speaking of my condominium, I mailed a $1,000 "earnest money" check to Andy today. This gets the ball rolling in terms of being able to make an offer on the property. I also phoned Dirk, the mortgage lender. He is not too happy with his current underwriter and will more than likely find someone who can be a little more flexible in terms of getting me a better loan. We'll see how it rolls out.

I still haven't officially cancelled my France trip. Guess I'm waiting just a tiny bit longer to see if this deal goes through. If it doesn't, then I'm taking it as a sign that I was meant to go to the land of 365 kinds of cheese this June.

Chuy and I went to Borders today and I bought a jazz sampler CD and a copy of The DaVinci Code for my sister. I already own the deluxe edition of the book, which I bought at Costco, but they didn't have it any more when I went back there yesterday. Thus, the trip to Borders. Since I wasn't going to be able to get it at the deeply discounted Costco price, dear Sis did not get the deluxe edition. I was hesitant to get her the deluxe edition anyway, since she is not much of a reader and I was concerned that she might find its larger format too unwieldy. Problem solved, decision made! The nice cashier even wrapped it up in giftwrap for me. Hope he took off the pricetag...

While we were at Borders, Chuy bought two books in Spanish. One is a non-fiction collection of illegal immigration accounts. The other is a translation of Stephen King's Salem's Lot. I pushed him to get the Spanish translation of The DaVinci Code, but he was put off by the length and wouldn't go for it.

Then we went to dinner at a Mexican restaurant called Chevy's that neither of us had tried. We won't be going there again. The food was not that good and, with all the excellent Mexican restaurants here in our city, why settle?

Tomorrow we take down the Christmas tree. That's too bad, because Chuy decorated it this year and he did a commendable job. I've plugged in the Christmas lights every night and have enjoyed the glow they cast on our newly redecorated living room. Bliss!